Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“I’m going to have to stop calling you “peach” else you are going to start thinking it’s your name!” - @modkitty.bsky.social to Hades 👱🏻🐱🚫🍑
Today's Poll: Would you support the introduction of a digital ID card? 1️⃣ I'm male: Yes 2️⃣ I'm male: No 3️⃣ I'm female: Yes 4️⃣ I'm female: No 📊 Show results
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cornwall Council leader, Leigh Frost: "This isn’t my flag. I am a proud Cornishman, but I have no problem with anyone being proud of theirs. Pride in your identity, your heritage and your flag is something to be celebrated. But this isn’t pride. This is mindless vandalism"
Spanish PM calls out Starmer & Germany's hypocrisy over zionist genocide in Palestine. This Saturday 1pm Historic 1000 Person Placard Protest. www.DefendOurJuries.net #PalestineAction
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
"I spoke with a Midlands-based Reform UK candidate. Instead of trying to convince me to support the party by discussing its manifesto policies and ability to govern, he took another approach: he told me that the UN were sneaking ‘military-aged’ migrants into asylum hotels"
England now following Scotlands lead yet again by banning kids drinking energy drinks. Whatever next, free tuition, removal of peak rail fares, free prescriptions, free bus passes to under 22s, free eye tests, nationalise their water. I will wait and see
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/03/n...
Voters are angry and not letting up. Good.
Indeed George, get it out there! 😀👍
This seems a good thread for my brief piece on Scottish place-names. Some Brythonic, some Norse, some Gaelic, some English. (Don't expect gazetteer. It's a first intro for visitors) www.amazon.co.uk/Place-names-...
Yet another unreflective piece asking “why is the media so fascinated with Nigel Farage?” IT’S YOU, JOURNALISTS.
Finished Percival Everett’s *Wounded* tonight, and it feels slightly atypical; rather like a sketch of a longer novel. Also - why the fascination across Everett’s work with three legged dogs?
Labour MP Anna Gelderd Mike, after initially supporting Cornwall-only devolution as a councillor during the Cornish devolution debate. www.voicenewspapers.co.uk/news/cornish...
Scotland’s vast energy resources should be in Scotland’s hands, so we can deliver lower bills for people and businesses.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
Hello Peter, hope all is well with you in California 🙂 Yeah, no-one spoke English in Britain then as England didn't exist. Yet history teachers in Cornwall, during in the '60s would say 'When the Roman's invaded England'. Did those clever Romans invent a time machine?!!😆
Cornish Labour MP Perran Moon: "I'm first and foremost a Cornishman. My party is very, very important to me, but the prime minister made very clear in the run-up to the election that it was Party first, country second. My country is Cornwall" #KernowFirst www.itv.com/news/westcou...
Yeah, previously Mr Moon was against Cornish devolution. It was during the election when standing as an MP candidate, that he had accepted and continues to promote Cornwall-only devolution. Terrible that he voted against devolving the CE to Wales. 😡
Cornish Labour MP Perran Moon: "I'm first and foremost a Cornishman. My party is very, very important to me, but the prime minister made very clear in the run-up to the election that it was Party first, country second. My country is Cornwall" #KernowFirst www.itv.com/news/westcou...
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Max Boot: Trump demanded that Israeli prosecutors drop their corruption case against Netanyahu. “It is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu,” he complained. So much for not lecturing other nations “on how to live and how to govern your own affairs”!
Well done to the Nottingham Post. 👏👏👏
It’s hard to focus on the growing existential threats abroad when your own government is intent on killing you.
Real police state stuff, pre-emptively arresting people in Defend Our Juries, because they are organising a peaceful protest.
Latest YouGov Westminster Voting Intentions poll: The SNP remains most popular by far in Scotland (actually most popular by far in any nation); Labour just pips first in Wales; and Reform well in front in England. Shame only England decides who gets to govern the UK.
The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections. Read our joint statement 👇 @ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
Yvette Cooper, on flags: "Oh, put them up anywhere. I would put them up anywhere." It felt like yesterday was the day Labour finally went FULL REFORM, but the last 12 hours have outdone even that raw horror. What fresh circle of hell will tomorrow bring? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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WTF 😡😡😡 So Blue Labour is continuing its descent into far-right populism, paving the way for a Reform government with Farage as PM.
Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
On my way to London to chair a briefing for peers on assisted dying. As the Bill arrives at the Lords, it’s more important than ever that parliamentarians have access to high quality evidence to make the Bill the best it can be to bring choice and peace of mind to as many people as possible.
Greetings, all those who wander in the Bluesky! I write SFF fiction at peachfieldpress.uk, I write about how I set up a small but doughty publishing house at katemacdonald.substack.com, I move words around, I measure excavated things and I organise. 💙📚🧶🏺🐸🌱🍫
Agreed Kate, malign intent. Bodmin council highlighting that the cost of cleaning the memorial will fall upon Cornish council tax payers.
Cornish MPs have called on Historic England to ensure that its Cornish sites reflect Cornwall’s national history and status. They say Cornwall’s heritage is not “a subset of English history”. Even better would be to call for all Cornish heritage sites to be run from Cornwall.
Reform are anti-Cornish assimilationists. But let’s remember action from Labour’s leadership counts more than just warm words at the despatch box. Will the Devolution bill specifically mention Cornwall? Will the government support Anna’s language bill? Will minority status be written into UK law?
Cornwall Council leader, Leigh Frost: "This isn’t my flag. I am a proud Cornishman, but I have no problem with anyone being proud of theirs. Pride in your identity, your heritage and your flag is something to be celebrated. But this isn’t pride. This is mindless vandalism"
Richard Tice falls apart live on TV during the softest of interviews Tice showed just what a political charlatan he really is - as he failed to handle the easiest of Sky News interviews www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
New @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social says "people are exhausted of never feeling secure" and this is exploited "by charlatans like Nigel Farage". And he warns Labour: "We're not here to be disappointed by you. We're not here to be concerned by you. We're here to replace you." ~AA
Yvette Cooper's new rules on asylum seekers' families will target the most vulnerable Cooper is expected to announce stricter rules on asylum seekers' families coming to the UK in yet another assault on human rights by the right-wing Labour Party www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
To appease bankers Reeves says Thames Water should find ‘market-based solution’. Not possible. It is a monopoly, no competition, no choice. Since 1989 TW paid £10.4bn in dividends, £13.68bn interest payments. Rocketing bills, sewage in rivers. We can't afford more of the same. Nationalise water.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
Yvette Cooper once stood at protests to protect refugees and child refugees. As Home Secretary today she has chosen to suspend families joining asylum seekers via any legal route.
🇩🇪🇭🇺 Germany now sees Orbán’s anti-Ukraine stance as a security threat, - Átlátszó Berlin is considering freezing €43 billion in EU funds and pushing to suspend Hungary’s EU voting rights under Article 7. EU leaders are also weighing ways to bypass Hungary’s veto power.
Reform UK councillor faces suspension calls amid electoral malpractice allegations www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
This Day in #History 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings. #DefyDogma
#Beaker Speaks
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Proud Papa! My son was one of four finalists in this competition! He's looking for agents... 📚💙
✍️ #amwriting Fun with Homonyms What dog doesn’t like a good bark?
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2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR 2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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A quarter of England state secondary schools have no dedicated physics teacher. Shortages in other subjects too Govts don't plan long-term, quick to cut real wages of public sector workers. University fees and student debt are a disincentive. Migrant labour can't solve all systemic failures,
"Private Healthcare Money in Politics: Who's Funding Our MPs? " privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/wp-content/u... @everydoctor.org.uk "The Labour Party received four times as much in donations from donors connected to private healthcare as all other political parties combined"
Peak rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains. Scotland also has: Public ownership of water, lower water bills than England's. No university tuition fees for local students. No prescription charges, abolished in 2011. No two child benefit cap from March 2026. England must follow.
The more I think about "Union Jack bunting on our garden shed" the funnier it gets. IT'S A GARDEN SHED. WHY DO YOU HAVE BUNTING ON A GARDEN SHED.
Well this is a good opportunity to wheel out Jonathan Gullis's Desecration of War Memorials bill. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
#Dr-Julia-Grace-Patterson & @everydoctor.org.uk are undertaking sterling investigations into #NHS #stealth-privatisation by #WesStreeting et al. Pls follow, support & interact 👊✊
Vaxxed?
History shows that Britain has always been multilingual, including Welsh, Cornish & Scottish theconversation.com/history-show...
FAO Elon Musk
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
History shows that Britain has always been multilingual, including Welsh, Cornish & Scottish theconversation.com/history-show...
👽 It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Earth is no longer run by humans… Oh… Suddenly I forgot what I was going to say.
Every time you forget about Rudy Giuliani he re-emerges in the most eyebrow raising ways.
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Myttin da / Good morning Blue Sky 🙂 A recent Cornwall Council meeting, a motion was passed for Kernow (Cornwall) to be recognised as a nation with equal status to Wales and Scotland. A petition is now available. Your support is much appreciated 👍😃 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
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Ed Milliband in 2016, "Labour leaders are clear that we want to remain in the European Union" Back when Labour put country ahead of ideology
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
The ECHR is not theirs to casually throw away. With Brexit, they’ve perfectly showcased just how irresponsible, inhumane and inept they can be. There should be a zero tolerance approach to the wild madness of these intolerant, entitled clowns thinking they can rewrite our human rights framework.
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
Carswell is in the same camp as Farage and Jenrick and all the other dismal, dull-arsed Reform/Tory hatemongers trying to create social division and civil unrest for their own power. No more hanging back. Anyone who genuinely cares about society and decency must stand up to this.
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There is strong UK public support for tackling climate change and achieving net zero. Extracting more oil and gas is not a popular policy: the Tories have been captured by extremists.
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history. Labour must get rid of him.
Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR" Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?" Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating" *Article 8: Right for private and family life*
This is Labour today, doing Farage's work for him. bsky.app/profile/impl...
A man and woman have been arrested after NHS nurse Apple Moorhouse was attacked in Halifax park. The couple asked if she “came here on a rubber boat” before performing Nazi salutes and assaulting her. Both remain in custody. #Halifax
Is all this right wing bullshit we are having to live through here to hide the fact that climate change is real, and oil companies and other big businesses would rather the destruction of the human race, than lose some money? Surely not.
I felt very upset today again, to see the omission of #COVID from Labour on school attendance causes. It’s completely odd to leave this out when children are getting it so often and this is why the last government ended testing imo. So I felt I should speak up on this. They are deliberately 🧵
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
This is blatant racism, and there is no “valid concern” that can sanitise it. I’m sick to death of the minimising of behaviour like this.